Truck.



W. O. SHADBULT.

TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 20, 1913. 1, 1 1, 6,502, Patented NOV.10, 1914.

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TRUCK.

Application filed october 20, 1913. Serial No. 796,267.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10,1914.

To all whom it may cancer Be it known that 1, WILLIAM Oscar. F-lrmoeonr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and. useful improvements in Trucks, of which the following is a specification. i 7 My invention relates to trucks for the transportation of merchandise, and particu: larly to the handling of material in yards and in the vicinity of manufacturing plants and the like, such trucks being sometimes termed yard-wagons? One of the principal objects of my invention is to provide a yardovagon which shall be strong and durable, easy to move around from place to place, and capable of easy and rapid loading and unloading, a separable platform being provided which is capable of being rolled on or off a transportation truck.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of various devices and parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and set forth in the following specification. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a yard-wagon constructed accordingto my invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, looking forward from the rear of the wagon.

In carrying my invention into effect, in the embodiment thereof which I have selected for the purpose of illustration and description, I provide a wagon body of any suitable construction, provided with suitable axles, wheels, springs and other parts, and in connection with this I provide a. frame or skeleton floor, which, whileattached to the wagon body so that it is secure thereon, is nevertheless capable of some degree of lateral movement, for thepurposes below described. The said frame or skeleton floor is constructed as follows: I provide longitudinal members 6, having sloped or round ed ends 7, secured to transverse members 8, which are provided with rollers or wheels 9, adapted to run on transverse members 10 of the wagon body. Pivotally secured at its forwardend to one of these transverse members 10 is a swinging member 11, the other end of said member 11 being pivotally secured to a transverse member 12 of the Wagon body. Angle-irons 13 may be provided if desired. Longitudinal members 5 are provided on the wagon body, adapted to prevent the frame from rolling oil sidewise.

It will be seen thatthe frameisj capable of some degree of lateral movement on the Wagon body, rolling on the transverse members of the wagon body, but that such movement is restricted by the members 5 and the frame thereby prevented from rolling off sidewise. 3 I I A yard-wagon constructed according to my invention is intended to be used in connection with a rolling platform such as is described in my co-pending application Serial Number 793,405, filed 011 the 4th day of October, 1913. This rolling platform, as fully explained in said co-pending application, comprises a floor section mounted on longitudinal rail members, which are curved or flared out at their ends. Such a platform, as will be readily understood, may be loaded with merchandise of any description, such as lumber, for instance, while the same is standing on any elevated stationary platform or the like, and then drawn upon a truck as described in said co-pending ap plication, but its use in connection with the present invention involves the placing of said movable platform on a yard-wagon constructed according to the present invention, the longitudinal rail members of said platform lying outside of the longitudinal members 6 of the yard-Wagon. When the movable platform with its load of merchan disc is to be transferred to a truck for transportation, the yard-wagon is backed up to the rear end of the truclnand the platform transferred from the yard vagon to the truck. It will be obvious, owing to the fact that the frame of the present invention has some lateral play, that the yard-wagon and the truck need not be brought into very accurate alinement, as the frame with its. loaded platform may be swung to one side or the other as the case may be in order to bring the parts into the proper relation for 3 transferring the load to the truck. It will also be obvious that owing to the shaped or sloped ends of the longitudinal members 6, a. slight difference in height between the yard-Wagon and the truck is negligible, as the loaded platform will slide over the sloped ends. These features of construction result in a great saving of time and obviously increase the el'liciency of the device.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 3. A wagon comprising running gear and ters Patent is as follows:

1. A wagon comprising running gear and a body, and provided with a platform permanently mounted thereon, one portion of said platform being pivotally secured to said body, and one end of said platform being adapted to move laterally on the said body.

i i l 4 I l l 4 l l i l l 2. A Wagon comprising running. gear and z a body, and provided with a platform pera body, and provided with a platform permanently mounted thereon, one portion of said platform being pivotally secured to said body, and one end of said platform being adapted to move laterally on the said body, said body being provided with means adapted to limit the lateral movement ofsaid X frame. 1

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 14th day of October 1913, in

manently mounted thereon, one portion of l the presence of two subscribing witnesses. said platform bein pivotally secured to said 1 body, and one en of said platform being adapted to move laterally on the said body, said platform being provided with rollers adapted to facilitate its lateral movement.

WILLIAM OSCAR SHADBOLT.

Witnesses:

EoMoNoCo oAR BROWN, LOUISE Ennnnm. 1

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0." 

